much

1. 1.

   a great amount or extent

   “they did much for humanity”

   Broaderlarge indefinite quantity

1. 1.

   (quantifier used with mass nouns) great in quantity or degree or extent

   “not much rain”

   “much affection”

   “much grain is in storage”

   Antonymslittle

   Similarovermuchsomesuchuntold

Other forms of much

plural

muches·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about much

What does much mean?

much means "to a great degree or extent". That is the primary sense; the word has 7 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in much?

much has 1 syllable: much. In IPA it is /ˈmʌtʃ/.

What is another word for much?

Close synonyms include a lot, lots, a good deal, a great deal, very much. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of much?

The recorded antonyms are little.

Is much a common word?

much is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.